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smitt

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English

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Etymology

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Compare German Schmitz (“a stain”), schmitzen (“to besmear”). See smite (transitive verb).

Noun

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smitt

  1. (UK) Fine clay or ochre made up into balls, used for marking sheep.
    • 1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England:
      This is the finest of the Clayey-Ore : and, thus made up into Balls, they use this also for marking of Sheep, and call it Smitt.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “smitt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Cimbrian

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Etymology

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From Middle High German smit, from Old High German smid. Cognate with German Schmied, Dutch smid, English smith.

Noun

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smitt m

  1. (Luserna) smith

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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smitt

  1. imperative of smitte

Swedish

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Adjective

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smitt

  1. indefinite neuter singular of smidd

Verb

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smitt

  1. supine of smida
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